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Stateside: Where have all the students gone?
Monday, 5 August 2002, 9:03 am | Rosalea Barker
That plastic comb I call a brain has attracted all manner of tissue-paper scraps this week. Iran, it seems, is about to host a celebration of its 7,000 years of history - in Cuba. More >>
Stateside: 11 September 1: 27 July Nil
Monday, 29 July 2002, 9:35 am | Rosalea Barker
I cried when I watched Laila Harre's concession speech, and I'm not entirely sure why. I guess it's because she's one of the people I would have given an all-round Minnie Award to for her integrity, her hard work, her quick grasp of the business ... More >>
Stateside: "I'd like to give you a disease."
Saturday, 27 July 2002, 6:30 pm | Rosalea Barker
As opening lines go, I've heard better but the tall dark handsome stranger with the big rig and the twinkle in his eye looked worth the gamble. "OK," I said. "Let's see what fate has in store for you then," said my Doctor Without ... More >>
Stateside: Aunt Minnie and the Mow-Ped
Monday, 22 July 2002, 8:51 am | Rosalea Barker
The United States Postal Service is conducting a trial use of that damned stupid epitome of everything that's wrong about research and development in this country - the Segway. More >>
Stateside: There Was An Old Lady In London
Monday, 15 July 2002, 10:12 am | Rosalea Barker
As you can tell from this column's title, I started writing it in Limerick. The medieval western Ireland city, that is, with its 1197 charter even older than London's. Limerick was the pot of gold at the end of my trip - even magically creating the perfect soundtrack ... More >>
Stateside: Fourth of July Special
Friday, 5 July 2002, 9:47 am | Rosalea Barker
"As the pamphlet 'Common Sense' was to the American Revolution, so 'Fixing Elections' could be to the movement for alternative voting systems in our day.... It deserves the widest readership possible." So says Richard Winger, editor ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Up north (With Pics)
Friday, 28 June 2002, 10:52 am | Rosalea Barker
From Dublin I flew to Manchester, where a security alert meant that we were all put onto a bus on the tarmac and whizzed through immigration without so much as a stamp in our passports. I took a train directly from the airport to Leeds. Trains in England ... More >>
Stateside In Dublin: The Pub That Roared
Monday, 24 June 2002, 9:25 am | Rosalea Barker
Last Sunday, 16 June, was something of a novelty date in Dublin. As happens every year on the day the events in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' took place, Bloomsday celebrations were in full swing. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Adventure With Pictures
Monday, 17 June 2002, 9:32 am | Rosalea Barker
Let's not start at the very beginning. It's such a very good place to end. Herewith therefore, the reverse account of a trip from West to Midwest USA. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Leadership As Spectacle
Monday, 10 June 2002, 9:22 am | Rosalea Barker
It was the umbrellas that did it - fair brought a tear to me rheumy eyes, they did. There they were in their random glory, poking up above the sea of Union Jacks being waved by the squish of people in the Mall at the end of the Golden Jubilee weekend. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Uncle Sam's Waistband
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 8:34 am | Rosalea Barker
Pardon my delving, but what is going on down there? It would be very nice, thank you, for a nation as well-respected as New Zealand is by the people of the US not to give the words "proportional representation" a bad name. It is a concept ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Where You From?
Monday, 27 May 2002, 9:34 am | Rosalea Barker
I've now lived for almost three years in a land where men have fannies and wear drawers, and I've got so used to the local lingo that it's been a while since "u" muscled its way into the 'hood, behaved badly, and spoiled my sense of fun. These ... More >>
Stateside: The People vs. the Executive Office
Monday, 20 May 2002, 11:00 am | Rosalea Barker
Heaven knows, I didn't go to the Amelia Earhart Symposium at the Western Aerospace Museum on May 17-18, 2002, in order to become intrigued about that pioneering pilot's disappearance. She flew. She fell out of the sky. Joni Mitchell wrote a song about ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Tourist edition
Monday, 20 May 2002, 9:07 am | Rosalea Barker
Golly, it was an eventful week. What with a 5.2 earthquake to get us going - the building I live in swayed like a blues mama - and then the new tabloid format of the 'San Francisco Examiner', with its flip-over two front pages, followed by the ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Portnick's Complaint
Monday, 13 May 2002, 8:44 am | Rosalea Barker
I'd be less than Irish if I didn't notice an unusual word popping its head up over the babblescape three times in as many days. Not that "stout" is all that unusual a word - why, I saw it 30 times in one beer chiller just last weekend. Hey, ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Maltese Blue
Monday, 6 May 2002, 9:19 am | Rosalea Barker
There was welcome relief this week from the steady stream of US, Israeli and Palestinian ambulances that have populated TV's local and international news since September 11. Un-PC as the Maltese Cross (late of Jerusalem and Rhodes, and now based in Rome) ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea - Photo Supplement
Tuesday, 30 April 2002, 10:12 am | Rosalea Barker
Two postmodern R2D2s, eager to board the Muni light rail on San Francisco's embarcadero, are dwarfed by the double-decker Bay Bridge slung above them. When travelling on the lower deck in the fog, you feel like you're in a Star Wars movie set. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Time For A Sesqui
Monday, 29 April 2002, 9:17 am | Rosalea Barker
Talk about Tam and Tem, the new hot men! Midweek I switched from one channel - where Mr Temuera Morrison was looking dangerously polite in a promo for the new 'Star Wars' movie - to another, just in time to catch Mr Lee Tamihere being interviewed on the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Hullo Sailor
Monday, 22 April 2002, 9:40 am | Rosalea Barker
A supreme court? Steady on, Old Girls! Faint though it is, there is still a glimmer of hope that a stay-at-home Kiwi will win an Academy Award for best director/best picture without Aotearoa having to become the 52nd state of the United States. Australia, ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Household Spanish
Monday, 15 April 2002, 9:32 am | Rosalea Barker
"In an unprecedented event in Mexico's history, this past Tuesday the Mexican Senate denied President Vicente Fox Quesada permission to travel to Canada and the Western United States." So began the email sent on Friday night to subscribers ... More >>
